A counterfeit designer shirt, a box of firecrackers and a Bitcoin “mining” device have all been dispatched at random from across the world to a London-based bargain hunter as part of a unique art project.
Unlike most online shoppers, the consumer behind these purchases is not actually a human, though - it is an internet “bot”.
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Random Darknet Shopper is an automated online shopping bot provided with a budget of up to $100 (around £66) worth of Bitcoin every week, which it uses to procure random items from the deep web - hidden parts of the web not accessible through conventional search engines and where users cannot be traced.
Random Darknet Shopper is the brainchild of two Swiss artists, Carmen Weisskopf, 39, and Domagoj Smoljom, 36, who work together under the name !Mediengruppe Bitnik,and they are putting on public display the goods procured in an exhibition, opening on Saturday, that they say will explore the “darknet landscape”.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/technology/robot-that-bought-mdma-and-passport-with-bitcoin-arrives-in-london-34281609.html
